Athos Magnani
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The Spider’s Stratagem. 100 minutes ‧ No rating ‧ 1970. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1970. 3 min read. [EDITOR’S NOTE: This review contains spoilers.] Thirty years before, Athos Magnani was a great man, a popular hero, and the leading anti-fascist in the district. But then he was killed, and time has stood still for his little town ever since.
The Spider's Stratagem. Details: 1970, Italy, Cert PG, 102 mins. Direction: Bernardo Bertolucci. Summary: Early work by Bertolucci, derived from a Borges story, and dealing with a political...
In Italy, Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) is the son of an anti-fascist hero who was assassinated three decades earlier. When the dead man's former mistress (Alida Valli) calls him back to his father...
Jan 29, 2020 · A film review of Bertolucci's adaptation of Borges' story, starring the same actor as father and son in a quest to uncover the truth behind the death of the elder Athos. The review praises the film's visual and musical beauty, its ambiguous narrative and its sense of stasis and indolence.
The Spider’s Stratagem. 1970. Strategia del ragno. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth.
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The Spider's Stratagem is a 1970 Italian made-for-television political mystery-drama film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and produced by RAI. The screenplay is based on the 1944 short story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero by Jorge Luis Borges.
